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by cucumber3732842 15 days ago
>Then we stopped doing this kind of bedrock investment, being sold on the idea that it’s not necessary. Then we lost our lead in all industries except… the ones we still do this in like aerospace.

Where's environmentalism and financializationn in all this?

We didn't "just" stop. We didn't close all those steel plants and whatnot for fun.